妖
yāo HSK7

strange

妖 yāo
bewitching adjective
enchanting, seductive, or flirtatious in appearance or behavior

她今天的妆容画得实在太妖了。

tā jīn​tiān de zhuāng​róng huà de shí​zài tài yāo le.

Her makeup today is far too flashy and seductive.

demon noun
supernatural beings such as goblins, monsters, phantoms, or malevolent spirits

传说这深山里住着千年老妖。

chuán​shuō zhè shēn​shān lǐ zhù zhe qiān nián lǎo yāo.

Legend has it that a thousand-year-old demon lives deep in these mountains.

Cross-References

Has variant

Frequency
Character
Written text
1,869th most common 43.1 per million
Movie subtitles
2,181st most common 14.4 per million appears in 5% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
7.75 per million appears in 2% of films
Written text
26.3 per million

Details
HSK 3.0
Level 7
Strokes
7
Unicode
U+5996

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)